How "Natives" Think Sahlins Marshall
How "Natives" Think Sahlins Marshall When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Who has the right to speak for whom? Can…
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How "Natives" Think Sahlins Marshall
When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Who has the right to speak for whom? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples?
Marshall Sahlins addresses these issues head on, while building a case for the ability of anthropologists working in the Western tradition to understand other cultures. Questions such as these are debated in this text. In recent years, these questions have arisen in debates over the death and deification of Captain James Cook on Hawaii Island in 1779.
Did the Hawaiians truly receive Cook as a manifestation of their own god Lono? Or were they too pragmatic, too worldly-wise to accept the foreigner as a god? Moreover, can a "non-native" scholar give voice to a "native" point of view?
This volume seeks to go far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. The culmination of Sahlins's ethnohistorical research on Hawaii, is a reaffirmation for understanding difference.
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